Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 lines.
2 Imagine the number of jobs that would be
3 created by giving tax breaks to companies that
4 manufacture, install or maintain alternative energy
5 facilities, from large regional projects to small
6 single family households.
7 Take the thousand or so projected jobs
8 created by building this terminal in Bellingham, add
9 the hundred or so created by mining coal, and add the
10 hundred or so created by increased rail activity. Now
11 multiply by 50 or more, and spread throughout the
12 United States. 50,000 plus engineers, technicians and
13 staff who manufacture, install and maintain
14 alternative energy systems based in small local
15 businesses or larger regional companies. Import this
16 technology to Asia and other countries, sending over
17 engineers and technicians.
18 Clean jobs. If you live in Bellingham,
19 would you rather be part of a regional effort to
20 install wind generators and solar power arrays in
21 appropriate locations, or work shipping coal to Asia
22 and then breathing the air pollution generated by its
23 burning? If you live in Montana or North Dakota,
24 would you rather mine dirty coal or install wind
25 generators? Would you rather your sons and daughters
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